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Driest place on the planet a nice spot for a drink
Calama :: Chile | 5 months ago
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No insects flit across its driest expanses, no scorpions lurk just under its parched wasteland (as they do in many deserts) and no lizards bask in bone-dry rocky terrain...Mines produce vast quantities of copper as well as lesser amounts of gold and
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Business › MHI receives order to build coal-fired power plant in Chile
Santiago :: Chile | 6 months ago
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said Tuesday it has received a full-turnkey order from Empresa Elctrica Guacolda S.A. (Guacolda), an electricity provider in Chile, for a 154 MW (megawatt) coal-fired power generation plant to be built in Huasco, Atacama
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Chile marks second year since mine collapse
Santiago :: Chile | 10 months ago
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Chile (AP) — Chile is marking the second anniversary of a mine collapse that trapped 33 miners a half-mile beneath the Atacama desert for 69 days. President Sebastian Pinera is in the northern city of Copiapo to join the miners
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Nostalgia for the Light – review
Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | 10 months ago
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It isn't simply that Patricio Guzman's Chilean documentary Nostalgia for the Light is moving: it has a tragic grandeur that really is very remarkable. It is deeply intelligent, intensely and painfully political, and yet attempts, and succeeds,
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Neil Hall's photographs of fog-collecting in Chile – audio slideshow
Santiago :: Chile | 11 months ago
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Neil Hall's photographs of fog-collecting in Chile audio slideshow Neil Hall was awarded the 2011 Joan Wakelin Bursary which is jointly administered by the Guardian and the Royal Photographic Society. He chose to travel to the Atacama desert in
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Man held in Chile in scholar slaying
Santiago :: Chile | 1 year ago
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A 25-year-old man has been arrested in Chile on suspicion of robbing and murdering a Japanese professor in Santiago, a senior police official said. Christopher Quijada has remained silent during questioning about the killing of Koichiro Morita, 58, a
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Chile holidays: Turning up the heat on a South American odyssey
Copiapó :: Chile | over 1 year ago
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The Bellavista quarter is a vibrant part of Santiago where the young folk go to shake it out And in Vitacura, east of the centre, swish art galleries perch alongside upmarket restaurants, including Puerto Fuy, where the freshness of the merluza (hake)
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Red Back execs back together to build again
Santiago :: Chile | over 1 year ago
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T announced that Richard Clark, Red Back's former chief executive officer, is Atacama's new CEO. As part of the hire, he is brining his old team to the new company, including Simon Jackson, Alessandro Bitelli, Kevin Ross and Hugh Stuart. More related
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Africa: Africans Need to Fight for Dignity
Santiago :: Chile | almost 2 years ago
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Africans Need to Fight for Dignity James Magode Ikuya 10 August 2011 opinion Last year, on August 5, 2010, 33 miners were trapped 5kms underground in a copper mine in northern Chile, deep in the volatile and harsh Atacama Desert. This, following
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Chilean desert holds secrets in haunting 'Nostalgia for the Light'
Santiago :: Chile | almost 2 years ago
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It is 10,000 feet above sea level and stretches for 600 miles on the west side of the Andes Mountains in Chile. There are no birds, insects or mammals that call the place home. The nomadic humans who died there centuries ago were preserved and turned
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